On February 9, the Eck Institute for Global Health (EIGH) hosted the 4th Annual Global Health Case Competition. This competition brought together undergraduate and graduate students from multiple disciplines to creatively address critical global health challenges in a competitive and...

Notre Dame will lead a five-year program to determine the efficacy of a spatial repellent product in preventing mosquito-borne diseases such as malaria, dengue and Chikungunya.

The University of Notre Dame’s Eck Institute for Global Health, led by Director and Professor of Biological Sciences Bernard Nahlen, serves as a University-wide enterprise that recognizes health as a fundamental human right and works to promote research, training, and...

Shaun Lee, Monahan Family Associate Professor of Rare and Neglected Diseases in the Department of Biological Sciences and member of the Eck Institute for Global Health, discusses his lab's exciting research, their collaboration with computer scientists, and what he finds...

Through a collaboration with the Medical College of Wisconsin, members of the Master of Science in Global Health (MSGH) class of 2016 assisted in a research study recently published in the International Journal of Social Psychiatry.

Alex Perkins, Eck Family Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences, and Sean Moore, research assistant professor of biological sciences, have been accepted to join the Vaccine Impact Modeling Consortium. 

Jackline Olucoh-Aridi, Vania Smith-Oka, Ellyn Milan, and Rev. Robert Dowd, recently had their important article, "Exploring Mistreatment of Women during Childbirth in a Peri-Urban Setting in Kenya," published in the influential journal, Reproductive Health. 

Callan Driscoll, former Eck Institute for Global Health Fellow and member of the Shrout lab, shares details about her career as an environmental engineer and time as a doctoral student at the University of Notre Dame.

In a new study published in the Journal of Experimental Medicine, scientists at the University of Notre Dame have discovered that the pathogen Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) releases RNA into infected cells.

Mark Fraser, MD/PhD student through the IU School of Medicine and the University of Notre Dame, member of the Lee Lab, and recent Eck Institute for Global Health Fellow, discusses his area of research and experiences in the Master of Science of Global...

The new global health specialization, grounded in the social sciences, will prepare students for careers that address global health from a policy perspective.

From Saturday, October 28 through Thursday, November 1, members of the University of Notre Dame research community will travel to New Orleans, LA for the annual American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (ASTMH) meeting. 

Catherine Bolten, Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology and member of the Eck Institute for Global Health, shares details about her extensive research in African countries on zoonotic disease transmission and primate interactions with human development.

University of Notre Dame doctoral and thesis master’s students can now apply for the Rapid Exposure to Advanced Computational Training (REACT) program.

A number of countries that have relied on development assistance for health are becoming ineligible for funding, leaving them without the necessary financial and technical support to sustain their health improvements.

Indiana University, Purdue University, and the University of Notre Dame invite all researchers to attend the Indiana Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute (CTSI) retreat. The event will take place at the University of Notre Dame’s McCourtney Hall on Friday, October...

Seven University of Notre Dame graduate students have successfully received fellowships from the Eck Institute for Global Health.

Three 2017 graduates of the Eck Institute for Global Health Master of Science in Global Health program, Wyatt Kernell, Rosalie DePaola, and Alec Maglione, published findings from their Capstone research project in the July 2018 issue of the influential journal,...

Nora J. Besansky, the O'Hara Professor and Associate Chair in the Department of Biological Sciences, hypothesizes in a recent paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that if scientists can understand what makes a small group of Anopheles mosquito...

The University of Notre Dame’s Master of Science in Global Health program celebrated its seventh graduating class on Saturday, July 28, 2018. This year’s cohort included over 20 students with diverse academic backgrounds and future career efforts.